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title: 'AI Deployment Strategist - Houston at Fundamental'
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# AI Deployment Strategist - Houston at Fundamental

- **Company:** Fundamental
- **Location:** Houston Texas, United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-09-16
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-16
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/fundamental/7473af06-d443-4a57-b1df-5f60cc25423a

## Job description

## About Fundamental

Fundamental is an AI company pioneering the future of enterprise decision-making. Founded by DeepMind alumni, Fundamental has developed NEXUS, the world's most powerful Large Tabular Model (LTM), purpose-built for the structured records that drive enterprise decisions. Backed by world class investors and trusted by Fortune 100 companies, Fundamental unlocks trillions of dollars of value by giving businesses the Power to Predict. At Fundamental, you'll bridge the gap between research and reality by helping some of the world's largest companies realize the transformational potential of NEXUS. This is your opportunity to be part of a category-defining company from the ground up. Join the team defining the future of enterprise AI.

## About the role

The AI Deployment Strategist owns the AI strategy for one of Fundamental's most strategic accounts. You are the single person accountable for how NEXUS grows inside that enterprise: which business problems it solves next, which executives sponsor it, how value is measured and communicated, and how a first deployment becomes a multi-year, multi-business-unit program. Where a Solutions Architect owns the technical win, you own the commercial and strategic one. You will operate as the customer's trusted advisor on applied AI, sitting with senior business leaders to map where prediction changes decisions in their P&L, building the case for each new use case, and orchestrating Fundamental's Solutions Architects, Forward Deployed Engineers, Research, and leadership team to deliver against that roadmap. Expansion of the account is your primary measure of success. This role is based in Houston, embedded with an anchor customer in oil and gas, with regular time on site and in our San Francisco office. You need to already speak the language of the industry: how an operator plans capital, runs its assets, trades its production, and makes decisions across upstream, midstream, and corporate functions. The role suits someone who has spent years advising energy companies on strategy and operations, wants to move from recommending to owning outcomes, and is comfortable being the face of an early-stage company inside a Fortune 100 organization.

## Key responsibilities

- Own the account AI strategy: build and maintain a multi-year roadmap of NEXUS use cases across the customer's business units, prioritized by business value, feasibility, and executive appetite
- Drive expansion: identify, qualify, and shape new opportunities inside the account, from first conversation through business case, budget, and commercial agreement, working hand in hand with Sales and Fundamental's leadership team
- Build and run the executive relationship map: cultivate sponsors at VP and C-level, run steering committees and quarterly business reviews, and turn deployed use cases into internal champions and reference stories
- Quantify and communicate value: define the business KPIs for each deployment before it starts, track realized impact against them, and translate model performance into language a CFO acts on
- Orchestrate delivery: set priorities for the Solutions Architects and Forward Deployed Engineers assigned to the account, remove organizational blockers across IT, data governance, procurement, and business lines, and keep every workstream tied to the strategic roadmap
- Structure the account like a portfolio: run discovery workshops with functional leaders (production operations, drilling and completions, supply chain, finance and planning, commercial and trading, HSE), map decision points to prediction problems, and sequence bets to compound trust and value
- Be the voice of the customer inside Fundamental: bring field patterns, competitive intelligence, and unmet needs to Product, Research, and the executive team to shape roadmap and go-to-market
- Codify the expansion playbook: turn what works in this account into repeatable frameworks, business case templates, and executive narratives that the wider Applied AI team can reuse across strategic accounts
- Travel as needed between customer sites, Houston, and San Francisco

Required Qualifications

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business, Economics, Finance, Engineering, or a related field; MBA or equivalent is a plus
- 5+ years of experience in the oil and gas industry, either in strategy consulting (MBB or equivalent) serving energy clients, in corporate strategy or operations at an operator or oilfield services company, or in a strategic account role selling enterprise technology into oil and gas
- Working knowledge of how an oil and gas company runs: upstream and midstream operations, capital allocation and portfolio planning, production and cost forecasting, commodity markets, and the organizational structure of a major or large independent
- Track record of expanding an engagement or account: turning a single project into a broader program by finding new problems, building the business case, and securing executive sponsorship and budget
- Executive presence and structured communication: comfortable leading a room of senior leaders, writing a crisp one-page recommendation, and defending a value model line by line
- Strong commercial and financial acumen: able to build a business case, model ROI, and navigate enterprise procurement and budget cycles
- Enough technical fluency to be credible with data and ML teams: you understand what a prediction problem is, what data it needs, and how to judge whether a use case is feasible, even if you don't write the code
- An existing network of senior relationships in Houston's energy ecosystem is a strong plus
- Ownership mentality: you want to be measured on outcomes for the account, not on deliverables, and you are energized rather than daunted by ambiguity
- Humble, team-oriented attitude with a bias toward action and doing what is necessary to help the broader team win

## Benefits

- Competitive compensation with salary and equity
- Comprehensive health coverage for you and your dependents, including medical, dental, vision, and 401K
- Paid parental leave for all new parents, inclusive of adoptive and surrogate journeys
- Relocation support for employees moving to join the team in one of our office locations
- A mission-driven, low-ego culture that values diversity of thought, ownership, and bias toward action

## About Fundamental

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Fundamental builds foundation models purpose‑designed for tabular data, enabling enterprises and governments to make accurate predictions and confident decisions.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Jeremy Fraenkel (CEO), Gabriel Suissa (Co‑Founder); built by DeepMind alumni

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Artificial intelligence / Enterprise AI (Large Tabular Models)
- Target customers: Large enterprises and government agencies (Fortune 100 clients)
- Mission: “To create a world of abundance by giving humanity the Power to Predict.”

## Products & Services
- **[NEXUS – Large Tabular Model (LTM)]**: A deterministic foundation model pre‑trained on billions of tables to ingest structured data (rows/columns) and capture complex, non‑linear feature interactions. Deployable with one line of code, integrates deeply with AWS, and designed for enterprise‑grade privacy and security. Unlike LLMs, NEXUS can reason over extremely large datasets (billions of rows) and provides consistent answers every time.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: $1.4 billion post‑money (as of February 2026)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised – $255 million (Series A: $225M led by Oak HC/FT, Valor Equity Partners, Battery Ventures, Salesforce Ventures; Angel round: $30M from investors including Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas, Brex co‑founder Henrique Dubugras, Datadog CEO Olivier Pomel)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Oak HC/FT, Valor Equity Partners, Battery Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Hetz Ventures; strategic partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- **Growth Signals**: Emerged from stealth in February 2026 with seven‑figure contracts from Fortune 100 clients; headcount grew from founding to 46 employees with +28% monthly growth; operates globally (San Francisco, Barcelona, Israel, UK, etc.)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deterministic & scalable**: Unlike transformer‑based LLMs, NEXUS is deterministic and can analyze tables with billions of rows without context‑window limitations.
- **Purpose‑built for tabular data**: Captures non‑linear feature interactions that LLMs miss, unlocking trillions of dollars in value from structured data.
- **Research‑led with academic rigor**: Team includes DeepMind alumni; model built on a non‑transformer architecture designed specifically for real‑world tabular data.
- **One model, many use cases**: Replaces armies of data scientists with a single foundation model that works across industries (finance, healthcare, energy, etc.).

## Strategic Focus
- **Expansion**: Deepening the AWS integration and scaling NEXUS across more Fortune 500/global government clients.
- **Talent acquisition**: Hiring across research (Barcelona), engineering (Europe, SF), and commercial roles (SF, Houston) to accelerate model development and go‑to‑market.
- **Category creation**: Pioneering the “Large Tabular Model” (LTM) category to differentiate from LLM companies and establish leadership in predictive AI for structured data.

## Why Work Here
- **Solve hard problems**: Work on groundbreaking research and engineering for a new modality of AI (tabular data) that most labs ignore.
- **Exceptional team**: Collaborate with DeepMind alumni and top researchers from Cohere, AI21 Labs, Google DeepMind, Mistral AI, and others.
- **Global and flexible**: Hubs in San Francisco (HQ), Barcelona (research), and remote‑friendly roles across Europe and the US.
- **Rapid growth**: Joining a well‑funded, high‑valuation startup at Series A stage with real revenue and Fortune 100 customers—clear trajectory.
- **Mission‑driven**: “Power to Predict” aims to transform decision‑making in enterprises and governments, offering tangible societal impact.
- **Culture**: Described as rigorous, ambitious, and supportive of deep research and patient engineering.

## Sources
1. [fundamental.tech](https://fundamental.tech/)
2. [fundamental.tech/company](https://fundamental.tech/company)
3. [fundamental.tech/careers](https://fundamental.tech/careers)
4. [TechCrunch - Funding announcement](https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/05/fundamental-raises-255-million-series-a-with-a-new-take-on-big-data-analysis/)
5. [LinkedIn Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/fundamentalhq)

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